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Tensions Increase At Troubled Wilberforce University

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Inside of a damaged dormitory room in Valentine Hall at Wilberforce University.
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March
11, 2013

Wilberforce University is the oldest black owned private university in the country. But the 157 year old school near Xenia faces an uncertain future. Students and faculty members worry the university may close if it cannot get more resources to fix the financial and structural problems on campus. The troubles have increased tensions at the university.

Students Threaten To Leave Ohio’s Wilberforce University

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Students demand changes and improvements at Wilberforce University
9:37AM
October
28, 2012

Administrators at a small, private university in southwestern Ohio say they’re working to address concerns that prompted two-thirds of its roughly 500 students to threaten to leave.